Electrical outlet-box.



PATENTED 061. 6, 1,903.

H. KRANTZ. T

ELECTRICAL OUTLET BOX.

' APPLIOATITON FILED MAY 25, 1903.

no MODEL.

. INVENTOR Jlflierr JGaniz ATTORNEYS WITNESSES racemes October 6, 190a.

PATENT OFFICE.

HUBER'I KRANTZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ELECTRICAL OUTLET-BOX.

5PEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,663, dated October 6, 1903.

Application filed May g5, 1903.

To all whom, it; may concern:

Be it known that I, HUBERT KRANTZ, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented Improved Electrical Outlet-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of my invention is to provide a simple and eificient electrical outletbox the face of which can be readily adjusted toward or from the body of the box as the particular place of use may require, and this without interfering with the wires in the interior of the box. the construction which I will now describe.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a central sectional view on the line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan of half of the box of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of half a box, showing a sleeve in two sections. Fig. 4 is a similarview of a modification. Fig. 5 is a view of a manner of securing the adjustable sleeve in place.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, B is the outletbox, which has a cover 0, formed with a projecting sleeve S, having an outwardly-bent flange f at its rim. A is the adjustable sleeve embracing the sleeve S and having an inwardlybentflange f at its lower end and an outwardly-bent flange f* at its upper rim. The sleeve A is split, as at s, so that it may be sprung over the flanged rim of the boxsleeve S. Holes h It may be provided,through which screws 5 sf freely turn, their lower ends being threaded into tapped holes in the cover 0. Nuts a c on the screws act as coilars, between which and the screw-head the flanged rim of the sleeve A is held. I

In Fig. 3 the sleeve A is connected to the sleeve S of the box by a split flanged section F, having an upper flange f outwardly bent and a lower flange f inwardly bent and adapted to be sprung open to encircle the flange f of the sleeve S. The screw 5 in this instance is threaded through a tapped hole It in the flanged rim f of the sleeve A and may be held to the cover 0 by a claw b, so as to be free to be turned.

In Fig. at the intermediary section F is flanged inwardly at both ends,while the sleeve A is flanged outwardly at its lower rim f Thus the section F is sprung over the flange This object is attained by' Serial No- 158.'7 02. (No model.)

of the sleeve S and the flange of the sleeve A The means shown forseouriug the parts in adjusted positions are the same as in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 5 instead of the screw passing through the flangeof the sleeve A and being secured to the box, as in the prior figures, a hole It is formed in the side of the sleeve and a screw 8 passed therethrough and fastened into the wall or floor l V. With the constructionsdescribed I secure in a simple way ample adjustment for all practical purposesand without liability of interfering with the wires in the box. In conjstruction's in which sleeves entering the box are employed these sleeves are liable to interfere with the wires.

I claim as my invention-- 1. An outlet-box for electrical conductors having a cover with-projecting sleeve, an adj ustable sleeve freely fitting over the project ing sleeve and outside the box, and adjustable thereon.

2. An outlet-box for electrical conductors, having a projecting sleeve, an adjustable sleeve fitting freely outside the projecting sleeve and screws secured to the adjustable sleeve and to the box to hold the sleeve in adjusted position.

3. An outlet-box for electrical conductors, having a projecting sleeve, an adjustable sleeve, flanges on adjacent edges of both sleeves, the flange of the adjustable sleeve fit ting outside the projecting sleeve and adapted to abut against the flange of the projecting sleeve to prevent its removal from said projecting sleeve, substantially as described.

4:. Au outlet-boxfor electrical conductors, having a projecting sleeve with an outwardlyflanged upper rim and a split adjustable sleeve having an inwardly-flanged lower end fitting below and outside the flange on the projecting sleeve, substantially as described.

5. An outlet-box for electrical conductors, having a projecting sleeve with an outwardlyflanged upper rim and a split adjustable sleeve having an inwardly-flanged lower end fitting below and outside the flange on the projecting sleeve, and means for holding the adj nstable sleeve .in its adjusted position.

6. An outlet-box for electrical conductors, having a projecting sleeve with an outwardly flanged upper rim and a split adjustable 8. An electrical outlet-box, having a projecting sleeve and a number of adjustable sections, all of as great a diameter as the projecting sleeve and freely fitting one another, and means for securing such sections in adjusted positions.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HUBERT KRANTZ.

Witnesses:

E. HOMAN, J. A. NEWTON. 

